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Aristoteles and Galileo... and she named herself Copernicus, so those two are other two real persons playing the game and got to the same level, it doesnt get explained but that should be kind of obvious
first video game that was fun at teaching that I recall was "Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?"; another great one was "Capitalism 2" which was used at Harvard to teach business management or something in that field
Well, the show has actually added stuff from books 2 and 3, so it really isn't far off to feel the context of those things from their respective sources.
You're my favorite reactor for 3 Body Problem. The insights you have are entertaining and bring a lot more understanding to the show/books. Thanks for taking the time to check this series out.
The statue in the first shot is Shiva Nataraja. It's a very famous depiction of the god performing a cosmic dance, which is actually a far more complex philosophical/metaphysical concept than it appears on the surface. I really don't know how to explain it as I am not an expert on either but I think what is significant here is that for some reason the concept of Shiva's cosmic dance vibes really well with modern physics.
The show also skips over the fact that a human computer wouldn't actually work, because humans are too slow. The Santi communicate their thoughts directly by reflecting light off their bodies (a much more efficient form of communication), which is what makes the computer possible.
D&D had an idea for skeletons being used as a computer. Simple instructions, infinite patience, complete accuracy. Until a bunch of murderhobos come in with holy weapons and screw up all the calculations.
@@amelianyoom9545a fun addition: kali is actually the enraged form of Parvati ,who is Shiva's wife and they both do a ritualistic dance called 'tandav' which is said to be performed by Shiva at the end of the universe
It is Shiva, that part it right. and he is the destroyer. But the Oppie quote actually comes from the Bhagvat Gita, in which Krishna (avatar of Vishnu) says those lines while displaying his "viraat" (fully realised) form.
Alpha Centauri in reality is actually a 3 star system. Yes the closest star system to our star system happens to be a 3 star system. (Proxima Centauri is a very small star, very far away from Alpha Centauri A and B but they all are gravitationally locked and form a 3 star-system)
From Jack's death we learn that no one who got a VR set who died committed suicide. They were killed because they made it to level 4 and turned down the invitation. They knew too much, so they were killed.
I mean that’s not true necessarily. The suicide at the start where the guy had torn his eyes out was due to the numbers, not the headset. We have no idea if he had a headset, because Auggie didn’t but still saw the numbers. It’s probable he was forced to kill himself by the aliens though (through a spoilery method)
@junipetta1595 the guy who gouged out his own eyes, never had a headset. We know this because if he did have one, then Clerance would have found it. The Cult made no attempt to recover the headsets they passed out. We know that because the Iranian and the Cern scientists had them still when their deaths were being invested
Turing and Newton are clearly other players, just like Jin and Jack. So were Aristotle and Galileo from the previous level. But I still don't understand how the multiplayer works. And also how Jin and Jack can play together as ally.
I think the game is really just a history book, showing various ways the aliens advanced from divination, to science, calculus and finally they got lucky and had a long stable period to really advance. The players only advance to the next level once they figure out and understand the key points.
I think most of the people in the game with the names of great scientists of the past are just other players, since they behave more like modern day humans, while the actual NPCs act more like how you would expect people of their time/culture to act.
Jins work on the whiteboard for the game, that is what hardcore gamers do in real life. I play a fair amount if Grand Strategy games, and I have reviewed the works of other players who wrote up 32 page PDF documents with spreadsheets on optimal unit compositions for all terrain types based on cost of unit to build. Stuff that took over 100+ hours of play testing to research, and that doesn't include the data analysis. What Jin did in that scene, is very much what happens in real life.
@@miguelgarr576 Yeah, but it doesn't behave like the stars in the show/book at all. It's a "tiered" system, with a binary and a single star at a large enough distance for the binary to act as a single gravitational body. I do wonder how stable Proxima's orbit really is over millions of years, but there are many "tiered" systems we know it, I think 5 is fairly common, and higher has been found.
My background is in the computing sciences, so when I first read the description of the living computer in the corresponding chapter of the book, about four years ago, I was very stoked. It's a great literary narrative about some foundational parts of digital design, and it integrates very smoothly with the narrative Cixin Liu made for this story.
The way the Santi could make a "human" computer is because of the fact that their thoughts are transparent and instant. They took advantage of this and configured themselves into a big computer to try to solve the TBP. It's why our lying is alien to them. The book fleshes this out so much more.
I am SO glad I found your channel. This is the exact kind of perspective I’ve been looking for. Also, I really like your tangents and style of speculating frequently. I’ve recommended your channel to the book thread I’m in. I’m gonna check out your books as well.
Glad you like the content. =) It is a bit "unorthodox" for a reaction style, but also makes me learn a lot. =) If you want to check out the books, probably start with the new one I always link currently. It is probably the best one and teases some stuff for other stories. =D All the best! =)
The one part where this episode slips is by implying the aliens are a hivemind which is not true. They have processes that makes their communication and culture much different from ours, that will be explained later. But they are not a hivemind. Like you said, you would not have a pacifist otherwise.
@@ravissary79 it's some kind of bioluminescence. basically their thoughts are displayed on their body in real time. they are not a hive mind but they can't have a private or hidden inner life. in the book, it shows the pacifists perspective and he is punished by their king. They have an argument about Santi society and the value of natural beauty and art and stuff like that. The show is probably going to gloss over a lot of the Santi details.
You know, it's often the most brilliant minds that suffer the greatest impact during a cosmic horror event. I can't wait to see your first "eureka" moment after piecing together some of those clues. Alpha Centauri is a triple star system, housing terrestrial planets, including Proxima Centauri b, which sits within the habitable zone and is experiencing a "stable era" as we speak. One of the most distinctive and chilling aspects of the books is that they mostly unfold within the setting of OUR universe. The author demonstrates those ideas step by step, lending the books a strong "science" vibe with minimal "fiction" feeling.
I have always assumed that Auggie has the power to shut it down, at least for a while, because, since it was her project from the beginning that she has an ownership stake in the company. Jack even mentioned how rich she was going to be once the IPO happened.
1:21:00 practically yes proxima centauri orbits around hte alpha centauri a and b binary as a thrid body at a very long distance which is why its relatively stable, its practically a tiny two body system iwthin a bigger tow body system, a bit like sun earth moon or one part of earth other part of earth and moon
I'm sure Raj's dad's war story will have a role to play in the future seasons (if made). But I don't quite get the metaphor. Anyone got a clue? It can't really be as simple as this: Raj's dad is humanity. The Pakistani soldiers are the San-Ti. When they reach Earth, human will pretend we don't have the tech or weapon to defend ourselves from the San-Ti, but actually we do have. And it's a surprise for the San-Ti, something they wouldn't expect. Humanity prevails.
I don't think that was meant to say the aliens are a hive mind. They just experience fear together. Meaning what's scary to one of them is always scary to all of them, to a point they can't even imagine a situation where one would be afraid and the others wouldn't.
Regarding the "suicide" at CERN, there was no evidence of a countdown. The deaths we know were suicides all had countdowns. The deaths that are ambiguous all had the "bicycle helmet." Rember the only other death we know had a VR helmet was the Iranian and they said they did not know if it was a suicide because the Iranian government wouldn't cooperate. And the deaths that had a countdown did not have a VR set, the Nobel favorite and Auggie, both had countdowns, and neither had a VR set; otherwise, the Investigation group with Clarence "Da" Shi would have one already. And while Auggie didn't die, it was heavily implied that she would commit suicide if her countdown got to zero.
The lady who jumped into the neutrino detector was Vera Ye. Jin is told that she played the game by Vera's mother, Ye Wenjie. We were not shown whether this was true or not.
The English adaptation of Three Body Problem was done by Ken Liu... Who is also the writer for 'Gods will not be chained', which the science fiction animated series Pantheon is based on... What a hidden gem!!
the book pretty much immediately confirms that it's alpha centauri, when the return message from the san ti came back less than 9 years later. And it's interesting, because technically, alpha centauri *is* indeed a three-star system. It's a little different in reality though, because one of those three stars is too far to be in a mutual orbit with the other two. Also, I'll have to reiterate that you would be blown away by the books, the mix of mind blowing sci fi concepts and cosmic horror (like) elements... wow
24:40 not in most cases 2 bodies can be neutral 3 bodies of very differnet sizes or distances can be stable so you can get two stars orbiting each other you can get one star and one planet orbiting each other you can get one star and 8 planets orbiting the star as logn as the planets only influence each other a tiny bit and are spaced out right 2 stars and one nearby planet would make the palnet unstable and unlikely to exist but it owuldn't influence the stars much 2 stars and one far away planet would work for the planet 3 stars all near each other would be unstable and unlikely to form but 2 stars near each other and a third star far away is common and for example the case in alpha centauri a, b and proxima centauri
Indeed. This story relies on the Centari system being 3 unstable inter--playing stars, but the reality is 2 are very close and rotate around eachother, essentially producing a net gravity well, and the third, proxima is VERY far away (but closer than they are to us), but is close enough it might rotate around around the alpha centari twins. We haven't watched them long enough to know for sure if proxima is going around them in a long orbit. If you think there is an ort cloud and its as far away as astronomers think, and if the various stars of the Centari system have an ort cloud then the 2 clouds overlap... like how atoms in a molecule share electrons.
@@ravissary79 though even with 2 stars a planet too close to them would be in a rather unstable orbit, looking at alpha centauri a and b any planert in ther habitable zones would be heavily influencedb y hte others tidal forces and end up in a chaotic handover between the two stars on a regular basis so the main plot in the show (insnae tidla forces aside) actually makes sense just with two suns rather than 3
Also, don’t know the maths but would the distant presence of Proxima Centauri make the ‘chaos’ of predicting the planets orbit around/between the core binary more difficult, further limiting usefulness of the rough predictions of stable/chaotic eras they can make? So in terms of threat to their planet, it is all three suns interacting that is the problem, though only two are close enough to affect the planet (their video game took some artistic licence to make their point).
@@simonstarr7667 tiny bit but compared to the chao already present it doesn'T affect the predictable range that much alpha centauri a and b are bout about sun sized and between 10-30AU apart a habitable planet would have toe be about 1AU from one of them and proxima centaur is about 1/10 the size and between 4300-13000AU away, orbiting over hundredthousands of years if we look at a planet orbiting alpha centauri A at 1AU and we look at the tidal forces from B at their furthest point and proxima at their nearest point the tidal gradient from B on the A+planet system is going to be about 18 million times stornger than the tidal gradient from proxima on the A+planet system and even the tidal forces from B only amount to a minor disturbance over their 78 year orbit aroudn each other the tidal forces when A and B get clsoer are about 27 times as intense and thats when there's a chance of a chaotic planet handover between A and B with an unpredictable new orbit or even a planet ejection can happen though in realtiy a planet in such an unstable ocnfiguration is rather unlikely to form in the first place
55:00 well a numerical software that drifts off over tiem and gets unstable after a certain while can still work if you continually adjsut it by forcing it to line up with continued measurements, kinda like how inertial navigation does
Well, not really. It only works for short term predictions but imagine building a civilization and you don't know if in a few weeks you're all going to die from freezing or burning. Also, systems that use those type of numerical calculations can also perform trajectory corrections. You can't really move a planet ;)
@@elirane85 yeah but you could keep a reasonable accuracy a few centureis in advance which is enough to work on a civilisation and to prepare for catastrophes that are not quite planet ending you can't predict much further than that with enough accuracy but if you keep updating oyur predictions you can always have at least a cnetury or so warning
@@JulianDanzerHAL9001 First of all, let me say that I love that we agree on the math and this is just a philosophical discussion now :). Second, I don't know about centuries, don't forget that those stars are not just rotating each other doing nothing else, they constantly burn off their mass as fuel, and they can fly close by each other and "steal" mass from each other. Since it's an already chaotic system, every tiny perturbation will knock your prediction off course really fast. And even if we assume you can predict a few centuries ahead, how do you expect to develop a technologically advanced civilization that is even aware of what's going on if you get almost wiped out every few centuries before you have the science and technology needed to realize what the problem is and how to solve it? It took humans about 100,000 years just to get from out of the jungle, then another 10,000 to get to a point where anyone has any idea what's going on. Humans would go extinct super fast on a planet like this. If you've noticed, the characters in the game said something along the lines of "if one of us survives, we all do" which indicates some sort of a "hive mind", that combines with dehydration/rehydration abilities, are how their species even survived. And they also mention in the books that due to this chaotic existence, it took them much much longer then humanity to advance technologically, since they almost need to start from scratch every time they have a chaotic era.
@@elirane85 the real stars are way too far for stuff like that but the way they're shown in the show they owuld indeed be even more chaotic though with their human computer and hte ability ot pass on knwoledge through cycles they could keep using the same model once developed and adjust it based on the most recent observations
23:00 pretty sure in most cases we still can'T distinguis hthem optically but we can tell from their spectrum that there are two different temperature bodies and from moving spectral lines that there are two bodies moving in opposite directions relative to us as they orbit each other
Spoiler Free: I've only seen the first season of this story and I don't think that they ever explored this more this but I don't believe the San-Ti to be a total hive-mind. I think they have some form of individuality and their telepathic ability has some autonomy to it. You'll see in the later episodes a huge piece of evidence to this which I think makes the aliens so complex and different from us. Can't wait to see your reaction to the later episodes! Especially since there are some quantum physics involved :D
The stake with pyre wood was already assembled in the grand hall. You can see Jin and Jack walk past it as they enter to give their (really Jin's) solution to the game.
The organisation’s name in english adaptation of book is ETO (Earth Trisolaris Organisation)… They too have couple of backstory, the show doesn’t mention it though!
While conscious you might be able to surpress fears or rationalise them, but when you are asleep the instinctual fear response cannot be stopped. That said, I remember that Grimm's fairytale, I had a record of it as a kid. In "Märchen von einem, der auszog das Fürchten zu lernen" I don't believe the protagonist is named at all, he's a younger, stupid son of a man. He's just too stupid to be scared, but when the princess he marries in the end pours cold water with fish over him while he sleeps even he gets scared because no matter how stupid you are, you still have instincts.
8:15, “mine mine mine” and “mate mate mate” refer to two functions of bird songs: Territorial defense and mate attraction. As an ornithologist, I’m pretty surprised they nailed this scene 😂 Also, both sexes of birds singing is the ancestral trait. Birds in temperate lost this trait but if you visit tropical areas, both males and females sing because they need to defend the territory all year round, contrast to birds in temperate regions where they only need to defend when breeding. A recent study found that female blue tits actually sing on Canary Islands, unlike their European counterparts, probably also due to the aforementioned reason.
IIRC, there was also a discussion about during COVID, that due to the massive reduction of cars and other engines that birds would use lower notes as well. Birds prefer to use high-pitched notes because they can be heard over engines.
Exactly. I find it fascinating that intrinsic motivation creates a better environment for learning. I'm a psychologist, but I love learning about theoretical physics, that's why hard sci-fi is my current hyper fixation. Every theme they talk about is relevant to the story, by the way.
One thing I really liked how they handled the VR is that the players, especially non-invited players die in the VR all the time, but are totally unharmed in irl. In most shows that have advanced VR they always go with the "If you die in the game you die in real life." They didn't do that here, and I really appreciated that.
Auggie wants a more serious relationship with Saul, but Saul isn't being serious about it. Every time she needs him because she's overwhelmed he's busy in a one night stand or doing drugs or partying or something
@edwardkuenzi5751 That’s true - in many species of birds, both parents care for the offspring, for example. And in more general behaviour, the members of both the crow and parrot families are unusually intelligent and demonstrate a wide range of emotion too.
I like you explaining the simple stuff aswell like what will happen to our solar system. I'm not that great at science or have a lot of knowledge but love listening too experts talk about this stuff so please don't stop explaining.
01:00:51 No fear. 01:14:19 They are very very very old. I imagine they eventually tried to leave enough hints behind for later civilizations. But they do not in fact have FTL. No one does. I think the civilizations are numbered in order.
Awesome discussions! Could you elaborate some more (or send some links to read further) on quantum mechanics with four spatial dimensions? I've taken some courses in qm, qft, the standard model, and string theory but I have not heard about 4+1 dimensional quantum mechanics and would like to learn more :)
It is basicall because you have CxC which is four dimensions. That alone would of course not be enough to say it is four dimensions in space but rather 4D in general (which is already pretty wild), but properties like having to turn a spin for 360° twice to go back into the initial state support that the "full" quantum properties have to be in a higher spatial space (There is a really cool paper where they also showed this in experiments doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.18.1102) . I hope the idea got a bit across, it is hard to really condense it without it losing too many nuances. =) It is not really legth, width, depth+1, though, as far as I understand it, but a weird other configuration of spaces. But what we do know is that there is a 2:1 mapping into observable space. =) Hope this answer is in the direction you find useful, feel free to dm me on discord as well if you want to know more or see things differently from experiences in e.g. string theory. =)
Harry Martinson's epic poem Aniara was first published in 1956! I think he had read up on the current science before he wrote it, it's just that science has advanced a lot since that time. Back then, it seemed kinda plausible that living on Mars would be similar to living in, say, Siberia - very harsh, but not at all like what we know today. (And Venus is a terribly hot and moist swamp, harsh but once again liveable). So they evacuate as many people as they can to Mars and Venus after Earth has been largely destroyed - was some time since I read it, but IIRC, they suggest WWIII with nukes though they don't go into detail. I think the reason Aniara can't be saved by other ships after some meteors knock it off course and simultaneously messes up the engines is simply that humanity don't have those resources after fleeing the dying Earth.
it's interesting that your first response upon hearing a three body system is a planet orbiting around two stars. I always thought that for a system to be chaotic and unpredictable, the three bodies have to be similar in mass, otherwise, for a three body system like the sun earth and moon, because of how much larger the sun is, we can get a pretty accurate solution. But I'm still not sure whether it's just a near perfect estimation or we still can not accurately predict the motion of earth sun and moon and I need to look more into that later😆.
but not in the way the show describes. it is a binary star system and a single star that influence each other. So while the 3BP is obviously in effect, a planet would not really fly around three suns. =)
Learning through games is enhanced if the learners "feel" like the "teacher" is on the journey with them. Hannah Arendt wrote an essay The Crisis in Education, (i have a video too 😉)
The reason they could develope more advanced science than us is that their civilization appeared long long before ours, so they had the time. Btw, their fleets are powered by antimatter in case you wonder😊
Alpha Centauri is a trinary system. In fact it is the closest star system to us. Proxima Centauri, the closest of the 3 stars to us has a confirmed rocky planet orbiting it.
1:11:40 that and tidal forces so its friction of the oceans transferred by gravity teh tides slow down the earhts rotation and htat angualr momentum gets transferred to the moon
I imagine any scientist that would pick up Auggies work would then also get a countdown, sure others could take over but theyd just keep causing scientists to off themselves.
Speaking of Jin's comment about saving the girl being the point of the game compared to Jack's disdain for her, I play a lot of Balders Gate 3, and that game offers you a path to play as either good or evil. I built a character with the specific purpose of playing the evil path, and before I had gotten halfway through the 1st chapter, I realized I was making all the good decisions. It can be very hard to play evil, even when given total freedom to do so.
Just want to say that 3body 'problem* solvable in theory. We HAVE formula for this. One small issue - its insanely complicated. It will takeus thousands and thousands years to calculate it. So, in short : we can calculate the solution but we can't. So its just a problem of computing it. Not math.
But it does happen. We have observed it happening. And since the planets orbit is constantly being perturbed, it is much more likely to happen to their planet than it might be in general. Being ejected is probably the most likely scenario though.
@@spamfilter32 relatively speaking yes but we've looked at a LOT of planets some of htem orbiting huge stars very nearby etc from afar falling directly into something small takes a surprising amount of coincidental precision
In a star system with 3 stars, you could not have stable and unstable phases. The third star would have to be further away for it to be stable. It doesn't make sense how you could flip between stable and unstable stages. So I don't think life could technically evolve in this sorta system.
The cobra around the neck of the Buddha follows a specific tradition of the religion which holds that the King of Serpents, Muchalinda, saw Siddharta as he was undergoing the meditation which brought the Buddha to Enlightenment. And the snake knew that the meditating prince must not be disturbed, so he coiled about the meditating man to serve as a throne, and he extended all of his multiple Cobra Hoods out (or one giant cobra by some accounts) so that the rain would not touch the Buddha in his moment of awakening. And that's the lore connecting the cobra images on certain statues of the Buddha. The academic work on world mythology done by Joseph Campell illustrated the link between the Horse-lord Aryans from the steppes and their influence in the Indian subcontinent as well as a bridge to the Eastern European transmission of earlier mythic themes tracing all the way back into Neolithic patterns and theorized way of life as supported by the material remains. This is also important specifically with the use of the serpent imagery because the Ophidian Mysteries were a late prehistoric/early historic widespread pagan mythology which still emerges in our mythology and spirituality today. The Buddha enthroned on the King of Serpents is sort of a spiritual declaration that the almight spiritual truth of "enlightenment" is nothing less than what sits already upon the throne of ancient mysteries. The Buddha is in his own way the new prophet of the old Mysteries, here to remind us of the ancient paths. It kind of gives great credibility and distinguishes Buddhism from Christianity even after the early development period when all of the faiths kind of blended in Asia for a while before coming back up in their more modern forms (See 'The Silk Roads' by Francopan. Lovely read.) Or at least, that was a lot of the thinking that Dr. Joseph Campbell, the Lumper Extraordinaire of Literary Folklore & Mythology, put forth in his opus The Masks of God, in both the first volume, Primitive Mythology, and the third, Oriental Mythology. (The name did not age well, but the work remains cogent.) I'm sorry I don't have exact citations to hand as my copies are in storage at the moment.
according to my physics teacher warp drive or the alcubierre drive is possible and may exist in the universe, however for us to build a warp device is impossible and it can not be man made, we cannot produce so much energy and mass to bend down on space not even black hole because the moment it reaches that mass that bends space around it becomes black hole.
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Aristoteles and Galileo... and she named herself Copernicus, so those two are other two real persons playing the game and got to the same level, it doesnt get explained but that should be kind of obvious
Alpha Centauri is a 3 star system
first video game that was fun at teaching that I recall was "Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?"; another great one was "Capitalism 2" which was used at Harvard to teach business management or something in that field
The girl's purpose is to make you sympathetic, also modeled after a young Ye.
Less hivemind, more collective consciousness
Man his reaction is so good, he's only watching a couple episodes and now he's predicting stuff in book 2 and 3
Makes me more excited to read them! I just started book 1.
Well, the show has actually added stuff from books 2 and 3, so it really isn't far off to feel the context of those things from their respective sources.
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almost like he read the books!
You're my favorite reactor for 3 Body Problem. The insights you have are entertaining and bring a lot more understanding to the show/books. Thanks for taking the time to check this series out.
The book dedicated 14 pages to explain how the human computer works 😂
They unwrapped a proton and stretched it out built a quantum computer wrapped it back up and sent it to earth at light speed.
The statue in the first shot is Shiva Nataraja. It's a very famous depiction of the god performing a cosmic dance, which is actually a far more complex philosophical/metaphysical concept than it appears on the surface. I really don't know how to explain it as I am not an expert on either but I think what is significant here is that for some reason the concept of Shiva's cosmic dance vibes really well with modern physics.
Ah, I see, that is really interesting. I really need to read up on Shiva, have heard the name on several occasions in stories. =)
Cixin Liu explains the human computer so well in books, all the Gates - AND, OR… There is entire process of how they do it…
I had to make a simulated CPU for my Comp Sci class. That was a lot of fun, coding all the gates.
Also goes into detail how they "fixed" bugs in the system lol
The show also skips over the fact that a human computer wouldn't actually work, because humans are too slow. The Santi communicate their thoughts directly by reflecting light off their bodies (a much more efficient form of communication), which is what makes the computer possible.
D&D had an idea for skeletons being used as a computer. Simple instructions, infinite patience, complete accuracy. Until a bunch of murderhobos come in with holy weapons and screw up all the calculations.
@@arconreef is this information communicated in the books to the game players?
That statue at the beginning was Shiva, the Hindu god of Destruction.
also, that statues actually at cern, a gift from india
He’s also the creator and protector as well, shiva is a benevolent deity and an agent of destruction as change similar to kali.
@amelianyoom9545 I should've put that in my original comment, apologies.
@@amelianyoom9545a fun addition: kali is actually the enraged form of Parvati ,who is Shiva's wife and they both do a ritualistic dance called 'tandav' which is said to be performed by Shiva at the end of the universe
It is Shiva, that part it right. and he is the destroyer.
But the Oppie quote actually comes from the Bhagvat Gita, in which Krishna (avatar of Vishnu) says those lines while displaying his "viraat" (fully realised) form.
Alpha Centauri in reality is actually a 3 star system. Yes the closest star system to our star system happens to be a 3 star system. (Proxima Centauri is a very small star, very far away from Alpha Centauri A and B but they all are gravitationally locked and form a 3 star-system)
Omg they're coming
From Jack's death we learn that no one who got a VR set who died committed suicide. They were killed because they made it to level 4 and turned down the invitation. They knew too much, so they were killed.
Good point!
no one? Vera did, although for a different reason
I mean that’s not true necessarily. The suicide at the start where the guy had torn his eyes out was due to the numbers, not the headset. We have no idea if he had a headset, because Auggie didn’t but still saw the numbers. It’s probable he was forced to kill himself by the aliens though (through a spoilery method)
@@germanher7528 spoiler:
Vera never got a headset.
@junipetta1595 the guy who gouged out his own eyes, never had a headset. We know this because if he did have one, then Clerance would have found it. The Cult made no attempt to recover the headsets they passed out. We know that because the Iranian and the Cern scientists had them still when their deaths were being invested
Turing and Newton are clearly other players, just like Jin and Jack. So were Aristotle and Galileo from the previous level. But I still don't understand how the multiplayer works. And also how Jin and Jack can play together as ally.
My guess is that they were PVE NPCs.
I think the game is really just a history book, showing various ways the aliens advanced from divination, to science, calculus and finally they got lucky and had a long stable period to really advance. The players only advance to the next level once they figure out and understand the key points.
I think most of the people in the game with the names of great scientists of the past are just other players, since they behave more like modern day humans, while the actual NPCs act more like how you would expect people of their time/culture to act.
Yes they are, its more obvious in the books, also taking famous scientist/philosopher names but its the same in the show.
Jins work on the whiteboard for the game, that is what hardcore gamers do in real life. I play a fair amount if Grand Strategy games, and I have reviewed the works of other players who wrote up 32 page PDF documents with spreadsheets on optimal unit compositions for all terrain types based on cost of unit to build. Stuff that took over 100+ hours of play testing to research, and that doesn't include the data analysis. What Jin did in that scene, is very much what happens in real life.
Good call on the theme sounding like Westworld. Same composer for both. Ramin Djawadi. He also did Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon.
Oh, it is dwadi (spelling?), he is one of my favourites
The actor who plays the old Mike Evans was in Game of Thrones. He was the religious leader who made Cerci do the walk of shame.
The high sparrow.
@@Dasypodidae45 this. Yes.
Not to mention, he was in the sci-fi cult classic Brazil! And he played pope Francis in Netflix’s The Two Popes :-)
@@Dasypodidae45I hated the high sparrow so much lmao
the science behind this series was actually pretty solid
Except for 3 suns which probably wouldn’t last very long. But it’s a fantastic introduction to so many scientific and game theory concepts! I love it.
Alpha Centauri is a 3 star system....
@@miguelgarr576 Yeah, but it doesn't behave like the stars in the show/book at all.
It's a "tiered" system, with a binary and a single star at a large enough distance for the binary to act as a single gravitational body.
I do wonder how stable Proxima's orbit really is over millions of years, but there are many "tiered" systems we know it, I think 5 is fairly common, and higher has been found.
Proxima has a planet, possibly two, and it's far enough away for the binary not to f*ck with the planet's orbit as it is in the book series.
"Can you do the dishes please". "That's not my field".
If you love fairy tales you are going to really love Will's story in future series.
My background is in the computing sciences, so when I first read the description of the living computer in the corresponding chapter of the book, about four years ago, I was very stoked. It's a great literary narrative about some foundational parts of digital design, and it integrates very smoothly with the narrative Cixin Liu made for this story.
I'm sure you already have the answer but Alpha Centauri is a trinary system so the story is accurate there
I'm having a blast watching along with you~~ much love from brazil
The way the Santi could make a "human" computer is because of the fact that their thoughts are transparent and instant. They took advantage of this and configured themselves into a big computer to try to solve the TBP. It's why our lying is alien to them. The book fleshes this out so much more.
I am SO glad I found your channel. This is the exact kind of perspective I’ve been looking for. Also, I really like your tangents and style of speculating frequently. I’ve recommended your channel to the book thread I’m in. I’m gonna check out your books as well.
Glad you like the content. =) It is a bit "unorthodox" for a reaction style, but also makes me learn a lot. =) If you want to check out the books, probably start with the new one I always link currently. It is probably the best one and teases some stuff for other stories. =D All the best! =)
The one part where this episode slips is by implying the aliens are a hivemind which is not true. They have processes that makes their communication and culture much different from ours, that will be explained later. But they are not a hivemind. Like you said, you would not have a pacifist otherwise.
Agreed. The initial contact was with a lone pacifist alien
@@JaneHasGamethis question had been on my mind for so long! thank u
I think being involuntarily telepathic means they can act LIKE a hivemind though since their ideas are instantly infectious.
We have that kind of animal here in the sea，it's called Sea Pickle, look it up thank me later.
@@ravissary79 it's some kind of bioluminescence. basically their thoughts are displayed on their body in real time. they are not a hive mind but they can't have a private or hidden inner life. in the book, it shows the pacifists perspective and he is punished by their king. They have an argument about Santi society and the value of natural beauty and art and stuff like that. The show is probably going to gloss over a lot of the Santi details.
You know, it's often the most brilliant minds that suffer the greatest impact during a cosmic horror event. I can't wait to see your first "eureka" moment after piecing together some of those clues.
Alpha Centauri is a triple star system, housing terrestrial planets, including Proxima Centauri b, which sits within the habitable zone and is experiencing a "stable era" as we speak.
One of the most distinctive and chilling aspects of the books is that they mostly unfold within the setting of OUR universe. The author demonstrates those ideas step by step, lending the books a strong "science" vibe with minimal "fiction" feeling.
Yay! Though I’m done with the series, I’m actually not because now I get to watch it with a new appreciation and insight. Thank you sir
I have always assumed that Auggie has the power to shut it down, at least for a while, because, since it was her project from the beginning that she has an ownership stake in the company. Jack even mentioned how rich she was going to be once the IPO happened.
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practically yes
proxima centauri orbits around hte alpha centauri a and b binary as a thrid body at a very long distance which is why its relatively stable, its practically a tiny two body system iwthin a bigger tow body system, a bit like sun earth moon or one part of earth other part of earth and moon
Can’t wait to see more from you! Love the discussions and comments from your reactions
I'm sure Raj's dad's war story will have a role to play in the future seasons (if made). But I don't quite get the metaphor. Anyone got a clue? It can't really be as simple as this:
Raj's dad is humanity. The Pakistani soldiers are the San-Ti. When they reach Earth, human will pretend we don't have the tech or weapon to defend ourselves from the San-Ti, but actually we do have. And it's a surprise for the San-Ti, something they wouldn't expect. Humanity prevails.
I don't think that was meant to say the aliens are a hive mind. They just experience fear together. Meaning what's scary to one of them is always scary to all of them, to a point they can't even imagine a situation where one would be afraid and the others wouldn't.
Regarding the "suicide" at CERN, there was no evidence of a countdown. The deaths we know were suicides all had countdowns. The deaths that are ambiguous all had the "bicycle helmet." Rember the only other death we know had a VR helmet was the Iranian and they said they did not know if it was a suicide because the Iranian government wouldn't cooperate. And the deaths that had a countdown did not have a VR set, the Nobel favorite and Auggie, both had countdowns, and neither had a VR set; otherwise, the Investigation group with Clarence "Da" Shi would have one already. And while Auggie didn't die, it was heavily implied that she would commit suicide if her countdown got to zero.
The lady who jumped into the neutrino detector was Vera Ye. Jin is told that she played the game by Vera's mother, Ye Wenjie. We were not shown whether this was true or not.
The English adaptation of Three Body Problem was done by Ken Liu... Who is also the writer for 'Gods will not be chained', which the science fiction animated series Pantheon is based on... What a hidden gem!!
I love pantheon!!
Pantheon is an epic story
the book pretty much immediately confirms that it's alpha centauri, when the return message from the san ti came back less than 9 years later. And it's interesting, because technically, alpha centauri *is* indeed a three-star system. It's a little different in reality though, because one of those three stars is too far to be in a mutual orbit with the other two.
Also, I'll have to reiterate that you would be blown away by the books, the mix of mind blowing sci fi concepts and cosmic horror (like) elements... wow
god i admire your sheer fascination and quick realization of everything
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not in most cases
2 bodies can be neutral
3 bodies of very differnet sizes or distances can be stable
so you can get two stars orbiting each other
you can get one star and one planet orbiting each other
you can get one star and 8 planets orbiting the star as logn as the planets only influence each other a tiny bit and are spaced out right
2 stars and one nearby planet would make the palnet unstable and unlikely to exist but it owuldn't influence the stars much
2 stars and one far away planet would work for the planet
3 stars all near each other would be unstable and unlikely to form
but 2 stars near each other and a third star far away is common and for example the case in alpha centauri a, b and proxima centauri
Indeed. This story relies on the Centari system being 3 unstable inter--playing stars, but the reality is 2 are very close and rotate around eachother, essentially producing a net gravity well, and the third, proxima is VERY far away (but closer than they are to us), but is close enough it might rotate around around the alpha centari twins. We haven't watched them long enough to know for sure if proxima is going around them in a long orbit.
If you think there is an ort cloud and its as far away as astronomers think, and if the various stars of the Centari system have an ort cloud then the 2 clouds overlap... like how atoms in a molecule share electrons.
@@ravissary79 though even with 2 stars a planet too close to them would be in a rather unstable orbit, looking at alpha centauri a and b any planert in ther habitable zones would be heavily influencedb y hte others tidal forces and end up in a chaotic handover between the two stars on a regular basis so the main plot in the show (insnae tidla forces aside) actually makes sense just with two suns rather than 3
@@JulianDanzerHAL9001 that makes sense.
Also, don’t know the maths but would the distant presence of Proxima Centauri make the ‘chaos’ of predicting the planets orbit around/between the core binary more difficult, further limiting usefulness of the rough predictions of stable/chaotic eras they can make? So in terms of threat to their planet, it is all three suns interacting that is the problem, though only two are close enough to affect the planet (their video game took some artistic licence to make their point).
@@simonstarr7667 tiny bit but compared to the chao already present it doesn'T affect the predictable range that much
alpha centauri a and b are bout about sun sized and between 10-30AU apart
a habitable planet would have toe be about 1AU from one of them
and proxima centaur is about 1/10 the size and between 4300-13000AU away, orbiting over hundredthousands of years
if we look at a planet orbiting alpha centauri A at 1AU and we look at the tidal forces from B at their furthest point and proxima at their nearest point the tidal gradient from B on the A+planet system is going to be about 18 million times stornger than the tidal gradient from proxima on the A+planet system
and even the tidal forces from B only amount to a minor disturbance over their 78 year orbit aroudn each other
the tidal forces when A and B get clsoer are about 27 times as intense and thats when there's a chance of a chaotic planet handover between A and B with an unpredictable new orbit or even a planet ejection can happen
though in realtiy a planet in such an unstable ocnfiguration is rather unlikely to form in the first place
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well a numerical software that drifts off over tiem and gets unstable after a certain while can still work if you continually adjsut it by forcing it to line up with continued measurements, kinda like how inertial navigation does
Well, not really. It only works for short term predictions but imagine building a civilization and you don't know if in a few weeks you're all going to die from freezing or burning.
Also, systems that use those type of numerical calculations can also perform trajectory corrections. You can't really move a planet ;)
@@elirane85 yeah but you could keep a reasonable accuracy a few centureis in advance which is enough to work on a civilisation and to prepare for catastrophes that are not quite planet ending
you can't predict much further than that with enough accuracy but if you keep updating oyur predictions you can always have at least a cnetury or so warning
@@JulianDanzerHAL9001 First of all, let me say that I love that we agree on the math and this is just a philosophical discussion now :).
Second, I don't know about centuries, don't forget that those stars are not just rotating each other doing nothing else, they constantly burn off their mass as fuel, and they can fly close by each other and "steal" mass from each other.
Since it's an already chaotic system, every tiny perturbation will knock your prediction off course really fast.
And even if we assume you can predict a few centuries ahead, how do you expect to develop a technologically advanced civilization that is even aware of what's going on if you get almost wiped out every few centuries before you have the science and technology needed to realize what the problem is and how to solve it?
It took humans about 100,000 years just to get from out of the jungle, then another 10,000 to get to a point where anyone has any idea what's going on.
Humans would go extinct super fast on a planet like this.
If you've noticed, the characters in the game said something along the lines of "if one of us survives, we all do" which indicates some sort of a "hive mind", that combines with dehydration/rehydration abilities, are how their species even survived. And they also mention in the books that due to this chaotic existence, it took them much much longer then humanity to advance technologically, since they almost need to start from scratch every time they have a chaotic era.
@@elirane85 the real stars are way too far for stuff like that but the way they're shown in the show they owuld indeed be even more chaotic
though with their human computer and hte ability ot pass on knwoledge through cycles they could keep using the same model once developed and adjust it based on the most recent observations
I love your comments in every scene and how you're somehow always one step ahead of the show😅
Great content you got a new subscriber!
I have to agree with you. The VR part of the show, I think it's the best. I love all these physics simulator stuff.
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pretty sure in most cases we still can'T distinguis hthem optically but we can tell from their spectrum that there are two different temperature bodies and from moving spectral lines that there are two bodies moving in opposite directions relative to us as they orbit each other
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I've only seen the first season of this story and I don't think that they ever explored this more this but I don't believe the San-Ti to be a total hive-mind. I think they have some form of individuality and their telepathic ability has some autonomy to it. You'll see in the later episodes a huge piece of evidence to this which I think makes the aliens so complex and different from us. Can't wait to see your reaction to the later episodes! Especially since there are some quantum physics involved :D
The stake with pyre wood was already assembled in the grand hall. You can see Jin and Jack walk past it as they enter to give their (really Jin's) solution to the game.
Remember what the alien game girl said about remembering every death she went through?
The organisation’s name in english adaptation of book is ETO (Earth Trisolaris Organisation)… They too have couple of backstory, the show doesn’t mention it though!
While conscious you might be able to surpress fears or rationalise them, but when you are asleep the instinctual fear response cannot be stopped. That said, I remember that Grimm's fairytale, I had a record of it as a kid. In "Märchen von einem, der auszog das Fürchten zu lernen" I don't believe the protagonist is named at all, he's a younger, stupid son of a man. He's just too stupid to be scared, but when the princess he marries in the end pours cold water with fish over him while he sleeps even he gets scared because no matter how stupid you are, you still have instincts.
8:15, “mine mine mine” and “mate mate mate” refer to two functions of bird songs: Territorial defense and mate attraction. As an ornithologist, I’m pretty surprised they nailed this scene 😂
Also, both sexes of birds singing is the ancestral trait. Birds in temperate lost this trait but if you visit tropical areas, both males and females sing because they need to defend the territory all year round, contrast to birds in temperate regions where they only need to defend when breeding. A recent study found that female blue tits actually sing on Canary Islands, unlike their European counterparts, probably also due to the aforementioned reason.
IIRC, there was also a discussion about during COVID, that due to the massive reduction of cars and other engines that birds would use lower notes as well. Birds prefer to use high-pitched notes because they can be heard over engines.
52:09 Aww he looked away and missed the "gesture" lol
Exactly. I find it fascinating that intrinsic motivation creates a better environment for learning. I'm a psychologist, but I love learning about theoretical physics, that's why hard sci-fi is my current hyper fixation.
Every theme they talk about is relevant to the story, by the way.
Loved the call on Occam's Razor 😂
That odd shadow on your mouth is creating the funny infamous mustache 😂
One thing I really liked how they handled the VR is that the players, especially non-invited players die in the VR all the time, but are totally unharmed in irl. In most shows that have advanced VR they always go with the "If you die in the game you die in real life." They didn't do that here, and I really appreciated that.
There is the implication that they feel the pain of it all, though, when Jack talked about tasting dirt and all that.
OMG，you mentioned hydrophobia(fear of water) and curvature engine, in the second and third of the books have important plotlines about these two.
The human computer is my favorite part in the 1st book.
The debugging 😝
Can’t wait for you to see ep.5. Couple of scenes will blow you away I think and we start to get some clear answers about the plot
Kerbal Space Program helped me learn about orbital mechanics. The XKCD on it is spot on.
Auggie wants a more serious relationship with Saul, but Saul isn't being serious about it. Every time she needs him because she's overwhelmed he's busy in a one night stand or doing drugs or partying or something
The aliens are not a gestalt consciousness, they just communicate in an interesting way.
Jack's BS sensor is spot on. His conclusions are wrong, but he clearly realises that somebody wants to pull something really bad to his detriment.
They call themselves civilization 9478 because that's how many times they've had to restart.
Birds don't have advenced neural circuits homologous to ours. It doesn't mean some haven't independently developed their own to do similar things.
Yes, the "social circuits" are only roughly not there afaik, same for reptiles. It is just that they are a lot more pronounced in mammals-. =)
@edwardkuenzi5751 That’s true - in many species of birds, both parents care for the offspring, for example. And in more general behaviour, the members of both the crow and parrot families are unusually intelligent and demonstrate a wide range of emotion too.
I like you explaining the simple stuff aswell like what will happen to our solar system. I'm not that great at science or have a lot of knowledge but love listening too experts talk about this stuff so please don't stop explaining.
I like these reactions a lot, thanks!
01:00:51 No fear.
01:14:19 They are very very very old. I imagine they eventually tried to leave enough hints behind for later civilizations. But they do not in fact have FTL. No one does.
I think the civilizations are numbered in order.
FTL.The limit of speed of light will be very important in book 3.
@@louieyoung350 I was referring to this season but good point.
Awesome discussions!
Could you elaborate some more (or send some links to read further) on quantum mechanics with four spatial dimensions? I've taken some courses in qm, qft, the standard model, and string theory but I have not heard about 4+1 dimensional quantum mechanics and would like to learn more :)
It is basicall because you have CxC which is four dimensions. That alone would of course not be enough to say it is four dimensions in space but rather 4D in general (which is already pretty wild), but properties like having to turn a spin for 360° twice to go back into the initial state support that the "full" quantum properties have to be in a higher spatial space (There is a really cool paper where they also showed this in experiments doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.18.1102) . I hope the idea got a bit across, it is hard to really condense it without it losing too many nuances. =) It is not really legth, width, depth+1, though, as far as I understand it, but a weird other configuration of spaces. But what we do know is that there is a 2:1 mapping into observable space. =) Hope this answer is in the direction you find useful, feel free to dm me on discord as well if you want to know more or see things differently from experiences in e.g. string theory. =)
Harry Martinson's epic poem Aniara was first published in 1956! I think he had read up on the current science before he wrote it, it's just that science has advanced a lot since that time.
Back then, it seemed kinda plausible that living on Mars would be similar to living in, say, Siberia - very harsh, but not at all like what we know today. (And Venus is a terribly hot and moist swamp, harsh but once again liveable).
So they evacuate as many people as they can to Mars and Venus after Earth has been largely destroyed - was some time since I read it, but IIRC, they suggest WWIII with nukes though they don't go into detail.
I think the reason Aniara can't be saved by other ships after some meteors knock it off course and simultaneously messes up the engines is simply that humanity don't have those resources after fleeing the dying Earth.
It is amazing how much like Jin you are. You and Jin could be doppelgangers.
it's interesting that your first response upon hearing a three body system is a planet orbiting around two stars. I always thought that for a system to be chaotic and unpredictable, the three bodies have to be similar in mass, otherwise, for a three body system like the sun earth and moon, because of how much larger the sun is, we can get a pretty accurate solution. But I'm still not sure whether it's just a near perfect estimation or we still can not accurately predict the motion of earth sun and moon and I need to look more into that later😆.
Alpha Centauri is a three-star system (A, B and C).
but not in the way the show describes. it is a binary star system and a single star that influence each other. So while the 3BP is obviously in effect, a planet would not really fly around three suns. =)
He’s done it folks, the German physicist has figured it out
they're just 4 lightyears away, what would they need FTL for ?
Well, close to light speed is also hard, it is basically the same (roughly)
Learning through games is enhanced if the learners "feel" like the "teacher" is on the journey with them. Hannah Arendt wrote an essay The Crisis in Education, (i have a video too 😉)
This is what all Reaction channels should be like. Hope you get 10K subscriptions soon. 👍
Your reaction to the human computer was just what I was looking forward to 😊
The reason they could develope more advanced science than us is that their civilization appeared long long before ours, so they had the time. Btw, their fleets are powered by antimatter in case you wonder😊
"'we are shadows of quantum world"" wow thats noble prize if u can prove..
*glances around in Book 3*
Alpha Centauri is in fact a trinary star system
Uggh! I am watching a movie at the theater shortly after this goes live. Will have to wait to watch until afterwards.
Monkey Man was a fantastic movie!
Alpha Centauri is a trinary system. In fact it is the closest star system to us. Proxima Centauri, the closest of the 3 stars to us has a confirmed rocky planet orbiting it.
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that and tidal forces
so its friction of the oceans transferred by gravity
teh tides slow down the earhts rotation and htat angualr momentum gets transferred to the moon
I imagine any scientist that would pick up Auggies work would then also get a countdown, sure others could take over but theyd just keep causing scientists to off themselves.
I think she was just starting production again. It is a material she is 3d printing. She has final say, unless she is pushed a side.
Love your reaction on thia series. Cant wait to see more of it.❤
can we bring back that thing carl sagan sent to space with our adress?
Probably too late :D
@@storieswithstyle oh oh xD
It's not traveling that fast, anyway. Humanity will probably be extinct before anyone else finds it.
Speaking of Jin's comment about saving the girl being the point of the game compared to Jack's disdain for her, I play a lot of Balders Gate 3, and that game offers you a path to play as either good or evil. I built a character with the specific purpose of playing the evil path, and before I had gotten halfway through the 1st chapter, I realized I was making all the good decisions. It can be very hard to play evil, even when given total freedom to do so.
You mentioned Occam's Razor before it appeared on the screen.
I am glad I did, now I can say "I called it" :D
Just want to say that 3body 'problem* solvable in theory. We HAVE formula for this. One small issue - its insanely complicated. It will takeus thousands and thousands years to calculate it. So, in short : we can calculate the solution but we can't. So its just a problem of computing it. Not math.
yeah. it is not a static formula so it can not be calculated because calcualtions take time, basically :D
52:40 this. This is the reaction I'm looking for. All other reaction channels don't really comprehend how absolute bonkers this idea is
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also most likely outcome, falling into a star is actually surprsiingly difficult
But it does happen. We have observed it happening. And since the planets orbit is constantly being perturbed, it is much more likely to happen to their planet than it might be in general. Being ejected is probably the most likely scenario though.
@@spamfilter32 relatively speaking yes
but we've looked at a LOT of planets
some of htem orbiting huge stars very nearby etc
from afar falling directly into something small takes a surprising amount of coincidental precision
When a quantum physicist talks about the price being a dead cat.. is the cat still alive if we just don't look?
Three star systems are unstable and eject the third star quite consistently. It’s handwaived in the books.
In a star system with 3 stars, you could not have stable and unstable phases. The third star would have to be further away for it to be stable. It doesn't make sense how you could flip between stable and unstable stages. So I don't think life could technically evolve in this sorta system.
The cobra around the neck of the Buddha follows a specific tradition of the religion which holds that the King of Serpents, Muchalinda, saw Siddharta as he was undergoing the meditation which brought the Buddha to Enlightenment. And the snake knew that the meditating prince must not be disturbed, so he coiled about the meditating man to serve as a throne, and he extended all of his multiple Cobra Hoods out (or one giant cobra by some accounts) so that the rain would not touch the Buddha in his moment of awakening. And that's the lore connecting the cobra images on certain statues of the Buddha.
The academic work on world mythology done by Joseph Campell illustrated the link between the Horse-lord Aryans from the steppes and their influence in the Indian subcontinent as well as a bridge to the Eastern European transmission of earlier mythic themes tracing all the way back into Neolithic patterns and theorized way of life as supported by the material remains. This is also important specifically with the use of the serpent imagery because the Ophidian Mysteries were a late prehistoric/early historic widespread pagan mythology which still emerges in our mythology and spirituality today. The Buddha enthroned on the King of Serpents is sort of a spiritual declaration that the almight spiritual truth of "enlightenment" is nothing less than what sits already upon the throne of ancient mysteries. The Buddha is in his own way the new prophet of the old Mysteries, here to remind us of the ancient paths. It kind of gives great credibility and distinguishes Buddhism from Christianity even after the early development period when all of the faiths kind of blended in Asia for a while before coming back up in their more modern forms (See 'The Silk Roads' by Francopan. Lovely read.)
Or at least, that was a lot of the thinking that Dr. Joseph Campbell, the Lumper Extraordinaire of Literary Folklore & Mythology, put forth in his opus The Masks of God, in both the first volume, Primitive Mythology, and the third, Oriental Mythology. (The name did not age well, but the work remains cogent.) I'm sorry I don't have exact citations to hand as my copies are in storage at the moment.
Alpha Centauri is a three star system.
love your passion!
The child is there only for the purpose of making the player emphasise more with the problem of the game.
Kerbal Space Program seems like an educational game done right. It introduces basic ideas quite well, imo.
according to my physics teacher warp drive or the alcubierre drive is possible and may exist in the universe, however for us to build a warp device is impossible and it can not be man made, we cannot produce so much energy and mass to bend down on space not even black hole because the moment it reaches that mass that bends space around it becomes black hole.
This episode has some heavy stuff; the War story, followed by Will's conversation with his cancer.
Someone never played the Oregon Trail 😂
No, only hear about it :)
I subscribed. You're awesome
biggest plothole in this show has gotta be how they managed to build space ships in the world they live.
3 sun's, what a pain in the ass... Invest in very large fire extinguishers!?